Saturday, March 15, 2008

Dark Flower


The experience of transcendence, inspiration, whatever you want to call the visionary place that lives with such overpowering force, cannot stay dependent on destruction. It's not hard to see why it starts out destructive. The natural inclination the soul carries for something more is the very tool that encourages the cutting of the blocking, limiting self. Clearing out this entangling mess is what allows the experience to really open up. But art - no matter what level of truth or beauty it might attain - should not have to bear the price of life. Until this particular problem is solved there are still essential lessons to learn.